Overclocking

AAnonymoos · July 21, 2018

I got a 1050 ti and I wanted to overclock it, but I don't want to fry it. so does anyone have any ideas how I should do this? I use MSI Afterburner. I'll add my specs below and operating system. (And some pictures since I'm too lazy to type them and I have to blur the serial codes.

GPU: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM (8 GB RAM usable) Current resolution: 1920 x 1080, 60Hz

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

OS Version: 6.1.7601

Service Pack: 1.0

Microsoft DirectX Version: DirectX 11

Also, I didn't know of any of this other stuff were important so I added them.

Ps, I forgot to mention the image above is the central processor.

Cookybiscuit · July 21, 2018

Damaging it can't realistically be done unless you do it very intentionally, there are too many idiot-proof defences on modern Nvidia cards to be able to do it. The maximum voltage is hard locked in the BIOS, and the card will downclock massively to save itself once it reaches 90C. Probably the greatest risk would be if you had a crap PSU that couldn't handle (minorly) the increased power requirements of your system after it was overclocked and it caused an issue, but it'd likely just shut off. This said, overclocking isn't without risks and shouldn't be done unless you're prepared to replace the component if it fails, safe as it is in this instance.

MSI Afterburner is the best program to use for overclocking, there are a bunch of benchmarking/stability testing programs you can use but Unigine Heaven is one of the better ones. If you can loop that for 12+ hours without crashes or artifacts there's a pretty good chance it's stable.

Simply allow voltage control, set power and voltage sliders to maximum and see how high you can get the core clock to increase before it crashes.